The NCAA tournament selection deserves praise this season. The tournament has tipped off. Your picks are locked in. It’s time to find out how your bracket is holding up. Check your brackets No team in the field drew an egregious seed or draw. John Calipari complained about his path to …

The first week of NFL free agency brings a flood of news and numbers. Gotta be careful with those numbers, though. NFL contract figures aren’t always what they’re initially cracked up to be. A dive into some of the hard numbers of this year’s deals shows a willingness by some …

10:06 AM ET Bob PockrassNASCAR Close • NASCAR writer for ESPN.com• 2009, 2013 NMPA Writer of the Year• More than 25 years experience covering motorsports FONTANA, Calif. — The 2018 Martin Truex Jr. didn’t look like the 2017 Martin Truex Jr. for the first four races of the season. He had relinquished the …

ORLANDO, Fla. — On consecutive Sundays, just a handful of tournaments into his comeback, Tiger Woods found himself just a shot back of the lead as he played the final holes. That will be among the positives he takes out of his recent golf on what ultimately was a frustrating …

INDIAN WELLS, Calif. — In September, after Juan Martin del Potro took out Roger Federer in the quarterfinals of the US Open, robbing Fed fans of yet another opportunity to watch him potentially play Rafael Nadal in a final at Flushing Meadows, I wrote that the 6-foot-6 Argentinian was a …

Chris Paul says he will pay any fine that results from teammate Gerald Green shoving Minnesota Timberwolves center Gorgui Dieng in the fourth quarter of the Rockets’ 129-120 win Sunday night. Green was ejected for coming to Paul’s defense after a frustrated Dieng pushed him down after a foul. With …

3:52 AM ET Jeff GoodmanESPN Insider Close Joined ESPN as a college basketball Insider in June 2013 Previously wrote for CBSSports.com and FOXSports.com BALTIMORE — UMBC athletic director Tim Hall told ESPN he intends to meet with coach Ryan Odom in the next day or two armed with a long-term …

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — There it was. A buzzer-beating shot from a UMBC player. It perfectly imperfectly rolled and bounced around the rim and finally fell through just as the backboard behind it lit up bright red. The final points of the game coming from the most unlikely possible source. It …

This not the Sweet 16 we imagined, but it’s the one we deserve. The tournament has tipped off. Your picks are locked in. It’s time to find out how your bracket is holding up. Check your brackets If the NCAA tournament is anything, it’s inclusive — competitively and culturally. The …

The Sweet 16 is set. There are names you expected to see and some, well, we’ll need proof if you said before the NCAA tournament started that these teams would still be playing on the second weekend. The tournament, though, does not stop here. There’s more to be done. It’s …